Dazzling the Screen Gregory Peck

American actor Eldred Gregory Peck was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. The American Film Institute named him the 12th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. He passed away at the age of 87.

Director William Wyler directed the 1958 American epic Western “The Big Country." The film starred Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, and Charles Bickford.

The storyline revolves around former sea captain James McKay (Gregory Peck), who travels to the American West to join his fiancee Patricia Terrill (Carroll Baker) at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Henry "the Major" Terrill (Charles Bickford).

Director J. Lee Thompson directed the 1961 epic war film “The Guns of Navarone." The film starred Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn, among others. It was adapted from the 1957 novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. (pictured above)

The storyline follows the efforts of an Allied commando unit to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea.

Directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall directed the 1962 American epic Western “How the West Was Won”. Hathaway directed three out of five chapters “The Rivers”, “The Plains”, and “The Outlaws” while Ford directed “The Civil War” and Marshall “The Railroad”. The film starred an ensemble cast among them Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, and George Peppard.

The storyline centers on a family and their descendants over the span of decades as they explore and settle the American frontier of the US.

Director Stanley Kramer directed the 1959 American apocalyptic science fiction drama “On the Beach." It was based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The film starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.

The storyline explored the aftermath of a nuclear war, focusing on the residents of Australia as they confront the impending extinction of humanity due to radioactive fallout.

Director Robert Mulligan directed the 1962 American legal drama crime film “To Kill a Mockingbird”. It starred Gregory Peck and Mary Badham. The film was adapted from the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee.

The storyline revolves around lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) in Depression-era Alabama educating his children against the Jim Crow laws while defending a Black man who is wrongfully indicted for the rape of a white woman.

Director Richard Donner directed the 1976 supernatural horror film “The Omen." The film starred Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens, and others.

The storyline revolves around Damien Thorn, a young child replaced at birth by his father, unbeknownst to his wife, after their biological child dies shortly after birth. As a series of mysterious events and violent deaths occur around the family and Damien enters childhood, they come to learn he is in fact the prophesied Antichrist.

Director William Wyler directed the 1953 American romantic comedy “Roman Holiday." The film starred Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. Hepburn won the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was filmed at locations in Rome.

The storyline revolves around an American reporter, Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), who is looking for a story in Rome when he comes across a strange woman portrayed by Audrey Hepburn who turns out to be a princess.

Director Alfred Hitchcock directed the 1945 American psychological thriller "Spellbound." The film starred Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, and Leo G. Carroll. It is based on the 1927 novel “The House of Dr. Edwardes” by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. The film was filmed in the summer of 1944 in Vermont, Utah, and Los Angeles, California.

The storyline follows a psychoanalist Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck).